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M. T. & J. 0. PEDIGO. V LOOKING DEVICE FOR KEY RACKS, m. No. 465,413.Patented Dec. 15, 1891.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

MADISON T. PEDIGO AND JAMES c. PEDIGO, or GLASGOW, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNORSOF ONE-HALF TO ELAM T. MURPHY AND PAUL o. PEDIGO,

OF SAME PLACE.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR KEY-RACKS, 80C

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,413, dated December15, 1891.

Application filed March 14;, 1891. Serial No. 385,059. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MADIsoN T. PEDIGO and JAMES C. PEDIGO, of Glasgow,in the county of Barren and State of Kentucky, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Looking Devices for Key and other Racks; andwe do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification, in which Figure l is a face View of our improvedkey-rack-locking device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a detail.

Our invention is a novel device to be used in connection with a seriesof hooks or pins on which articles can be suspended, which device can beadjusted so as to prevent the removal of articles from or their placingupon the hooks.

The invention isespecially designed for use as or in connection withkey-racks or jewelers racks, display-cases, &c. and it consists in thecombination, with a series of hooks or pins attached to a wall orsuitable support, of a movable frame which can be adjusted to bar theends of the hooks or pins andlockethso that articles on the hooks cannotbe removed.

It further consists in the novel construction and combination of partshereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A designates series of hooksarranged in four parallel rows, as shown in drawings. Any number of rowsmay be used and any number of hooks in a row. The hooks may be attachedto a wall or to a suspending board B, as shown. The locking-frameconsists of side uprights D D, connected by transverse rods E E, oneabove each row of hooks and parallel therewith. The uprights D D playthrough retaining eyes or loops F F, attached to the board or wall, asshown, so as to permit the frame to be moved vertically. Springs areemployed to uphold the frame snfficiently ends.

but any other form of locking device may be 1 used. Preferably the rodsE have notches or recesses e in them into which the ends of the hooksenter when the frame is lowered.

It will be apparent from the drawings that when the frame is unlocked orraised articles can be freely put on or taken off the books; but whenthe frame is lowered this cannot be done. A The device is applicable tomany different racks wherever pins or books are used. It will also beobserved that the frame moves in a plane at right angles to the hooks,orthe locking-rods E move transversely to the hooks.

It will be observed'that the hooks are arranged in horizontal parallelrows with their shanks projecting horizontally from the back or wall,and the locking-rodsof the frame are horizontal and parallel with therows of hooks, but reciprocate in a vertical plane or at right angles tothe shanks of the hooks, so that the rods move directly from and towardthe hooks, but maintain the same position in relation toor distance fromthe wall or back.

Having thus described our invention, we claiml. The combination, with ahorizontal row of hooks attached to a suitable support, of a movablelocking-rod lying parallel with the row of hooks movable in a plane atrightangles to the shanks ofthe hooks toward or from the hooks, andmeans for guiding said rod, so as to simultaneously close or unclose theends of the hooks, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described key-rack, consisting of a back board, a seriesof hooks attached thereto and arranged in horizontal parallel rows,vertically-movable spring-controlled bars lying and moving at rightangles to the rows of hooks at the opposite ends thereof,

and a series of horizontal locking-rods conas our own we affix oursignatures in pres. nected to said bars and lying parallel with enoe oftwo Witnesses. the rows of hooks and adapted to contact H 1 With theends of the hooks when the bars are 5 depressed so as to close thehooks, and means for holding said bars down, substantially as\Vitnesses: specified. WALTER PEDIGO,

In testimony that we claim the foregoing JOHN NELSON.

